Robert Mugabe
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) President and Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai gives the official opening address during the three day MDC Policy Conference on May 17, 2013 in Harare. Tsvangirai gave a first taste of his party's election platform, which will pledge to win back foreign investors and clip the security services' wings. The long-time opposition leader staked out policies diametrically opposed to those of his rival, President Robert Mugabe. Tsvangirai's vision put clear distance between the MDC and Mugabe's ZANU-PF platform of indigenisation. The upcoming elections will choose a successor to the shaky power-sharing government formed four years ago by Tsvangirai and Mugabe.
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The fact that they fought the war under Zanu PF means that they belong to Zanu PF and they have a duty to protect a leader of their choice and in this case, it is President Robert Mugabe
This is a clear abuse of state machinery and an act of systematic harassment and intimidation of journalists who are merely doing their job. This has always been a common feature of Zimbabwe under president Robert Mugabe and his Orwellian Zanu-PF regime since they came to power in 1980.
Our erstwhile colonizers continue to manipulate international institutional and conventions to justify unilateral military interventions in African states with the objective of extracting and unfairly exploiting our resourcesMore quotes »
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Political rivals vote for Zimbabawe referendum
-- Longtime political rivals President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said they cast identical 'Yes' votes in a one-day referendum Saturday on a new constitution that curbs presidential powers and is backed by all main political parties. Read more »
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Zimbabwe's president predicts election victory
believes he will resoundingly defeat his opponents in elections this year and remain in power for another five years.President Robert Mugabe cut an 89 kilogram (40 pound) cake at a sports arena in this mining town of Bindura, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) Read more »
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Man jailed for calling Robert Mugabe a dirty donkey – Animal Rights activists outraged
foreign dictator Robert Mugabe – some say he’s the best in his field – has seen to it that a lecturer who called him “a rotten old donkey” has been jailed for three months. Chenjerai Pamhiri, 38, a lecturer at Great Zimbabwe State University in Masvingo city, 5/20/13 from Anorak Read more »
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MDC vows to reverse indigenisation drive
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai wrapped up his party's post-election plan meeting Sunday vowing to overturn President Robert Mugabe 's controversial indigenisation drive if he wins upcoming general elections. He wound up the meeting with a rally attended from Empowering Financial Decisions Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Internal Fights Weaken Mutasa
get Mutasa's blessing, ever since his predecessor, Maurice Nyagumbo died in 1989. But a recent petition written to President Robert Mugabe to rein in Mutasa has left him exposed, weakened and on the defensive. According to the petitioners, allegedly led by from AllAfrica.com Read more »
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Zim lawyer vows to fight on
southern African country that has shifted from being a jewel of the continent to an international pariah during President Robert Mugabe's 33-year rule. Mtetwa's arrest for obstructing justice, a day after the country held a constitutional referendum in March, from News24 Read more »
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Loving on Mugabe’s Lap
ageing African homophobic and misogynistic leaders when it comes to our treatment of non-heterosexual sexualities. Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe called gays and lesbians “worse than pigs and dogs” in 1995. Five years later, he continued to state from Thought Leader Read more »
